Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

We are grateful to four anonymous referees and the editor for detailed comments. We have benefited from extensive discussions with Don Andrews, Joe Altonji and James Heckman. We are grateful to Sally Grantham McGregor who participated in designing and implementing the experiment we describe here. We also thank participants at the NBER Summer Institute, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum and Montreal CIREQ Applied Microeconomics on Fertility and Child Development and seminars at Stanford University, University of Chicago, Oxford University, Cornell University, Bristol University and the Institute for Fiscal Studies for their comments. We are grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant ES/G015953/1), the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Growth Centre, and the World Bank for funding the intervention and data collection. Some of this research was financed by the European Research Council's Advanced Grant 249612 and by the Grand Challenges Canada Prime Award 0072- 03 (sub-award reference number 560450). Sarah Cattan gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship pf140104, as well as from the European Research Council's Grant Agreement No. 240910. We thank the NIH for funding under grant R01 HD072120 as well as the Cowles foundation and the ISPS at Yale for financial assistance. All errors are the responsibility of the authors. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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